We shot this clip the day after we did a water drumming workshop with the local kids. We’re on one of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is a small, very remote country southeast of New Guinea.

The Kalash People of Pakistan The Kalash of Pakistan are a little known people living in one of the most isolated places on earth. This clip is brought to you by the Asia Harvest,a Christian organization serving in Asia. Check them out at http://www.asiaharvest.org. Video used by perrmission of the K2 Association.

This is a new video from Ian Lungold’s website mayanmajix.com. Carl Calleman interviews Don Alejandro, a Mayan shaman about the much anticipated end of the Mayan calendar. Don Alejandro is traveling the world spreading his message of a new dawn – the new dawn of a time of peace and happiness for all mankind.

http://lettertorobin1.site.aplus.net/id435.html I read this article recently posted by Mayan’s about properly interpreting the wisdom cultivated over centuries from their elders; shamans hidden from the world, often ascetic keepers of great mystery and knowledge systems. It has always been my experience that the most powerful shamans I’ve ever met, and I’ve only met a few, have [...]

This is a talk given in December 2010 by Elizabeth Lindsey, a Native Hawaiian speaking about the wisdom of Native elders and how their wisdom is so relevant to today’s world. She recounts the knowledge past down to her by her Native Grandmothers and the deep connection these Grandmothers had to the environment they lived [...]

A beautiful little piece on how a Hmong Medicine man keeps his Shamanic tradition alive with the community who has immigrated from South East Asia to America.

Wade Davis discusses Inuit cultural survival, their current struggles with climate change and why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world.

Bio-diversity is where there are enough different crops to maintain a healthy, balanced and sustainable ecosystem. Mono-culture is where a single crop is mass-planted for harvesting efficiency, but a single strain of virus can wipe out the entire crop. Cultural diversity contains the sum total of our ancestral wisdom, dreams, ideas, perspectives, experiences, skills, and [...]

The Q’ero are a Quechua speaking tribe from the central mountains of Peru. Their lands cover some of the highest, most rugged and most isolated terrain in the Andes and their Pacos, or Shamans, are considered the best, most knowledgeable and most powerful of the region. There are currently about three thousand Q’ero living in [...]